SEAFORTH

                                                            Ft. JORDAN DAVIS

                                                               "Good Beer'" 

                                                               Arista Nashville

Tom Jordan and Mitch Thompson, together known as Seaforth, have been taking steady strides towards breaking through and making their mark on the country music scene since arriving in Nashville from their native Australia in 2017.

Having already earned recognition as “one to watch,” winning an APRA award for Breakthrough Songwriter of the Year and making a huge leap forward with their heart-tugging single “Breakups” in 2021, the duo is now set to kick off 2022 with their latest effort to radio, “Good Beer.”

The song, co-written by the duo with Rocky Block and Jordan Dozzi and featuring guest vocals from Jordan Davis, leans on a feel-good, pop laden backbeat to pull you through lyrics that present a juxtaposition between the uptight crowd that drinks in the city with the Friday night country drinking crowd.

Singing lines throughout the first verse about how they were kicked out from hanging with the cocktail crowd in the city and having no stock in Tesla, helps to perfectly set the tone for what comes when they slide into the groove driven chorus.

On the back of summery sway in the melody, the chorus shifts away from the uncomfortable, often stuffy, city/party atmosphere and into the laid-back, small-town country atmosphere as he sings of a good beer being a cold one, the right drive being a slow one down a backroad, and the whole town cheering for the home team.

The second verse continues with what the chorus already started by focusing in on when a good cold beer tastes the best, and in list like fashion rattles off on a Friday night, under neon lights, when it’s been sitting on ice, if you’re drinking to forget her, or to remember her, etc.

Having Jordan Davis’ vocals slide in really helps elevate the song as they are different enough from those of Seaforth’s that it brings a whole new dynamic to the song that helps it explode with the punch needed to hit the lyrics home.

The popping of a can opening to lead into the chorus is an additional nice touch, as is the clever nod to Coors with a line in the bridge that sings, “If that mountain’s glowin’, Then I’ma crack it open.”

Because of the summery feel throughout the groove, I suspect that Sony (Seaforth’s record label) is planning a longer promotion to radio for this song so that it would really start to find its stride around the end of April/beginning of May so that it can become a feel-good anthem to lead us into the warmer weather months.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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